Alaska trip completed a dream to visit every state for a couple who met overseas during the husband’s Navy deployment Help ...

A retired Air Force general recalls the journey of some of America's first soldiers through wilderness that is now Maine.

Maine’s history is a rich blend of Indigenous heritage, colonial conflict, maritime industry, and cultural resilience. Once ...

A surprise dead-of-night attack helped lead to US independence from the British. Now, a series of events are commemorating ...

Almost exactly two centuries ago, a horse and carriage carrying one of the nation’s biggest celebrities and his small ...

But let’s get back to the Battle of Quebec. Although people spoke French in Quebec, the province was “claimed” by the British ...

Also on this date: In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York. In 1865, Confederate President ...

Allen and his soldiers, joined by Benedict Arnold, mounted a surprise attack ... Americans held the fort until July 5, 1775, when it was recaptured by the British during the Saratoga Campaign.

TICONDEROGA — On May 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys rowed across Lake Champlain and seized the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga — delivering the ...

WASHINGTON — After the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Massachusetts militia ... Connecticut militia officer Benedict Arnold as a colonel and authorized him to raise ...

On September 6, 1781, in one of the Revolutionary War’s most brutal episodes, America’s infamous traitor Benedict Arnold led 800 British troops in an assault on Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut.

Ethan was full of confidence in 1775 — when was he ever lacking ... Actually, he jointly led forces that night — working beside Benedict Arnold, who was perhaps America’s most effective ...